Very important: please go vote tomorrow.  I’m a republican so my endorsements remain: Way, Wolfe & Lovejoy.

I was watching TV this morning and there was a commerecial with Andrea Mitchell saying something along the lines of “the only goal in elections should be to get as many people to vote as possible.  When the American people are engaged, the right decisions get made”.

This sort of “vote at any cost” mantra gives me heartburn.  Not so much on the Federal level, there’s almost too much coverage of the Federal system.  The eternal campaign for president ensures coverage of a – “We’ve always been at war with Eastasia” sort of deal.  It never ends.  However, information at the State and local level is far more difficult to come by.  The WaPo stops by when they smell blood in the water and the JM sends a reporter when there isn’t really anything else going on anywhere else.

When I was in Front Royal several weeks ago, I went for a run the morning after we had dinner in the Old Town part of Front Royal.  On my way back, I ran into an older woman who was putting campaign signs in.  I inquired as to whether she was the candidate and she responded that she was indeed running for office.  Turns out her big issue was to move town elections to November.  She asked what I thought.  I told her I didn’t think much of the idea.

My concern, as I alluded to above, is that the local issues just get lost in the mix.  I think some level of focus on local issue in May elections is no bad thing.  What do you guys think?

Update: no, it isn’t me.  don’t ask b/c I don’t know.